Back To Nature (3)

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Planting peas at the foot of South Hill

Weeds are overgrown while sprouts are few

Getting up in the morning to clear the wild

Coming home in the moonlight with a cleared mind

Narrow path tall grass

Evening dew soaks my robe

A robe is nothing worth to mope

Obeying my nature my only hope

~ Translated by Dot, from Tao Yuanming’s “Back to Nature (Part Three),” a series of ‘Field and Garden’ poems written in the Six Dynasties period

种豆南山下，草盛豆苗稀。
晨兴理荒秽，带月荷锄归。
道狭草木长，夕露沾我衣。
衣沾不足惜，但使愿无违。

~ 陶淵明 (東晉末至南北朝) 《歸園田居 其三》

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